If Lewis is genuinely so unwell that he is unable to attend such a significant vote why hasn't he or his office released any kind of statement? The public are rightly sympathetic to genuine illness.

Lewis isn't responding to direct questions on his absence either but instead has now begun disseminating fairly obsequious social media posts on the matter - removing himself from any kind of culpability.

How ill do you have to be to miss a vote that could potentially save the massacre of civilians?

In the 1970's the terminally ill Labour MP Alfred Broughton was wheeled down from hospital into parliament in order to vote on a far more trivial matter.

Lewis' absence is curious. His selective responses are curious also.

In September he distanced himself from the Labour grassroots by performing a staggering u-turn and appearing to support renewing Trident's WMDs. His speech at the Party Conference, although amended, undermined the Labour Leadership in a manner more befitting of the Blairite clique.

Was Clive Lewis exacting his revenge on the Labour Leadership at the expense of Yemeni civilian population?